Intonation technique

[sosomething]

Re: Intonation technique

I don't know where Frank is, but I know this: the blackest of all intonation techniques requires goats blood and at least six virgins.

Ze trv kvltest kno zat ze proper intonatyonne ov gvitarz iz to maek every note SCHARP LIKE ZE HORNTS OV ZE BLAK GOAT LORD BAPHOMET

 

[Zerberus]

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I don't know where Frank is, but I know this: the blackest of all intonation techniques requires goats blood and at least six virgins.

Works better with 666 virgins and if you add a pinch of Imp Wing. Easy access to both is why my guitars have the advantage :firedevil:laugh2:

 

[Dr. Vegetable]

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Huh. I can't keep virgins in the house.

 

[Zerberus]

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Huh. I can't keep virgins in the house.

I can, but the problem is that they generally don`t remain virgins very long :naughty::banana:

 

[medic24]

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But how do you get the virgin goats to drink the bourbon?

 

[Zerberus]

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But how do you get the virgin goats to drink the bourbon?

That`s Veggie`s problem, I think. I use neither Bourbon (for this ritual, otherwise I apply liberally to internal organs whenever desired) nor a virgin goat. Remember, I`ve got the Imp Wing to mix into the blood and the virgin horde, the other guys are the ones with logistical issues to conquer :chairfall

 

[dr.barlo]

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Virgins, goats... Nah! Using the dark side of the force for perfect intonation I am. Hmmmmmm.

B :burnout:

 

[kilphody]

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Open- fretted@12. I use a Petersen 490.

 

[Zerberus]

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Virgins, goats... Nah! Using the dark side of the force for perfect intonation I am. Hmmmmmm.

B :burnout:

AAAH, your real name is Darth R. Barlo, I knew it all along... but what does the R stand for?

 

[aleclee]

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Open note and fretted 12th for me, all with a strobe tuner or something similarly accurate.

I used to move the nut forward to reduce the sharpening of the fretted notes, but then that theory evolved into compensated nuts, the whole Earvana and Buzz Feinten things, and it all got too much. Now i accept the minor compromises and get on with playing music, plenty of legends have made great music without needing to go that far or ending up with different guitars to play in different keys.

My EBMM neck has a compensated nut and it sounds so right, it sometimes sounds wrong. After decades of hearing those little intonation issues, playing a guitar without them can be kind of weird.

 

[FuseG4]

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Works better with 666 virgins and if you add a pinch of Imp Wing. Easy access to both is why my guitars have the advantage :firedevil:laugh2:

I was always going for 1 virgin and 666 imps (alive, not just the wings). See if she can pull an imp train

 

[Chickenwings]

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the 12 fret harmonic is exactly the octave of the open string. It is also the exact same note that the 12th fret should sound. Why would you use anything else?
Just bear in mind that some people's techniqur can change the pitch due to too much finger pressure, and also a natural tendency to push the note flat by pressing the string toward the bridge. Try to intonate to accommodate your technique as well depending on how hard you normally press etc

 

[darthphineas]

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since this thread is fairly recent and on the topic of intonation, I thought I'd ask this here instead of firing up a new thread.....


when you have it is tuned to open and tuned to the 12th harmonic and tuned to the 12th fret... but... you are still getting sharp notes at the 1st fret that work themselves out as they get to the 12th... what is the most likely culprit? too much underbow? net height?

I'm thinking it might be a slight bit of too much underbow, which I would prefer to being an easy fix rather than the possibilty of a problem with the nut height. either way, I'll find out this weekend when I have time to get to the workbench... but I thought I'd run it up the flagploe to see what you cats think first.


thanks!





edit: figured it out. lol! it was eating at me too much so I had to take some bench time. haha! turns out that a bit of adjusting with the action and the truss and a re-intonation straightened all out (ha! a pun. see what I did ther? I rawk!). I was able to get it handled with lowering the action on the low E side of the Floyd about a 1/4 turn and the truss was able to take somewhere around a 1/3 of a turn. it all fell into place with only the low E needing any re-intonation worth talking about, as it was flat. now that it's resolved I can rest a little better and pull out the strobe tuner tomorrow to do some fine tuning (ha! I did it again!). anyway, I was figuring a little too much bow was the deal. glad that's all it was.